HudsonHawk
I'll Lock Up
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I am significantly Eastern European on my mother's side. Growing up, a certain person on my father's side of the family made a big deal out of whiteness and how my mother's family was from Eastern Europe, blah, blah. In other words, my mother was less white than my father, and oh my goodness, mixing.
I took a DNA test around the first of the year, and as it turns out, I am one of the 4 to 5% of white Americans who have African DNA... And it's on my father's side... And this person shares the bloodline.
I have been laughing ever since.
And the DNA test doesn't prove that your ancestors were from Africa, it simply means that you and some other people in Africa share common ancestral DNA. It's a database comparison. Given that Europeans also colonized much of Africa, this is common and not surprising. It could be that your DNA test simply indicates that you and someone in Africa share a common European ancestor. And it's also as likely that you have an ancestor who was an African slave. The world is indeed a mixed bag.